madkaw74
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posted March 02, 2003 03:24 PM
confused?
I am member to the board and Im about to get my bike lowered. I was planning on purchasing the dogbone myself from spencer cycle for 35.00, the place I planned on letting do it asked me if I wanted to lower the front also and I really didnt know how to respond I was under the impression that the dogbone lowered the whole bike but I guess I was wrong, anyway he started talking about welding my kickstand and all kinnd of stuff What's the standard practice on this Im 5' 11'' and weight 200 lbs but I still wanted to drop it 3 inches .thanks
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Red1
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posted March 02, 2003 03:36 PM
MadKaw,
The dogbones will only lower the rear of the bike. I prefer the adjustable ones from Spencer's for the rear of the bike.
The front end can be lowered by moving the forks up in the triple tree thus lowering the bike. If you do this be careful!! You will get different opinions I wouldn't recommend lowering the front end more than "1" inch at the most. Some have lowered the front more than "1" inch without any problems others have had the forks slip because the forks are tapered ( smaller ) beginning about "3/4" of an inch below the top of the forks.
Once lowered the kickstand will be too long!! You can have someone cut out the middle section of the stock stand and weld it back together thus lowering the kickstand or you can buy an adjustable kickstand from Spencer if you are going to ride your bike lowered ( for racing ) and regular height for canyon carving!!
Hope this helps!
Red
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madkaw74
Parking Attendant
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posted March 02, 2003 03:48 PM
thanks a million red!!!! this helped out a lot. thanks for the detailed response.
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madkaw74
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posted March 02, 2003 03:48 PM
thanks a million red!!!! this helped out a lot. thanks for the detailed response.
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slug
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posted March 03, 2003 04:19 AM
 Edited By: slug on 3 Mar 2003 04:20
also don't forget to keep an eye on front wheel clearance; at full compression of the forks you may have pieces touching, best of course to determine this in garage rather then at triple-digit speeds, trying to haul her down to speed limit for the cop a couple hundred meters ahead.......
(edit: stupid typos....)
  
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REDRIDER
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posted March 03, 2003 09:36 AM
Keep in mind that if you go lower than stock you will scrape the bottom of the fairing if you drive aggresively.
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rubber pants
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posted March 03, 2003 10:11 AM
If you remember 1 thing here. It should be this:
Lowering the bike is a great idea if you're into hard accelerating touring etc and not major cornering. I put my dogbones on the lowest setting in the rear and put a smaller dia tire up front (looks cooler and gives better feed back on the front) Looks a bit like a drag bike. But the big payoff is the fact that you do not lower any forks etc and if any thing its more stable at high speed as you are really increasing the steering angle (more stability). This whole setup works perfect for me and I havn't yet scraped anything. Also the big plus is it allows you to launch a little harder let alone flat feet on ground doen't hurt either. Scraping the bottom fairing is a little problem especially speed bumps etc.
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